While your intrepid WWAC correspondents were too tired to make it to the 9pm award show, we can still let you know which books won the prestigious brick Saturday night. The Ignatz Awards moved to online voting when the pandemic hit and continued it for this year’s awards, meaning that the pool of voters is…
Previously on Comics: Webtoon Drama Highlights Pay Disparity for Creators
Hello and welcome to another Previously on Comics! Kate here, catching up with the rest of you on everything that’s been going on this week. I had movers come on Sunday and had to skip Rose City Comic Con and it feels like this past week was just a blur. Happy SPX to everyone who…
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: August/September 2022
The calendar still says summer for a few more weeks. But there’s a chill in the air, Pumpkin Spice everything is back on shelves, and kids are back in school. Onward to autumn! Our latest Titan PUBWATCH installment continues our look at Doctor Who: Origins with a double dose of reviews and more of the adventures of…
Previously on Comics: The Queen Is Dead
This week we are once again sad to report another loss to our community, underground cartoonist Diane Noomin. Best known for her character DiDi Glitz and editing the Twisted Sisters anthology of women cartoonists, Noomin was a pioneer with a career spanning 6 decades. We also said goodbye to Eric Jones, who passed unexpectedly in…
Previously on Comics: A Win for Gender Queer but the Fight Continues
Hello dearest WWAC readers. It’s time for another week (and one day) comics news roundup. If this were a television series, it’d be like Last Week Tonight, but you know, for comics. The big news from the past week is the Virginia Beach Circuit Court dismissing the case against the graphic novel Gender Queer: A…
2022 Dragon Awards: The Expanse, Dune, Star Wars, and More Take Trophies
The seventh annual Dragon Awards was held at Atlanta’s Dragon Con on Sunday, with another 15 winners being chosen from the ranks of science fiction and fantasy novels, films, TV series, comics, and games. According to official statistics, more than 7,000 fans cast their ballots in the awards, which are decided via an online poll.
2022 Hugo Award Winners Take Us To Other Worlds
Chicago became the host of the 80th World Science Fiction Convention at the start of this month, with the annual Hugo Awards handed out on Sunday. A new round of recipients, voted for by the convention membership, went home with the iconic rocket-shaped trophies to honour their contributions to the previous year’s science fiction and…
DC PUBWATCH: Late August 2022 Edition
I goofed a couple of times in last month’s Pubwatch… First, it wasn’t August yet, whoops. So that makes this the Late August edition. My bad. Second, apparently, the solicits did come out in the middle of Comic Con, and I just missed them. That said, I was correct in my assumption that New Champion of…
Previously On Comics: End of an Era
Good morning friends. This week was marked by another sad loss to our community with the passing of artist Tom Palmer. Palmer was best known as an inker for Marvel Comics who he worked with from the late 60s into the early 2000s. We have just learned that legendary comic book artist Tom Palmer…
Previously On Comics: Oni-Lion Forge, A Hypothetical Mess
It’s been a short week. Or has it been the longest week of my life? I don’t even know anymore. I’ll dive right into what you all missed last week in comics. I want to focus on the hullabaloo (what the good folks in the Midwest call it) going on at Oni-Lion Forge. So forgive…
Vault Comics Pubwatch: August 2022
Summertime means convention circuit time. Now that in-person conventions are a thing again, Vault is making the rounds with appearances and exclusives popping up at San Diego Comic-Con for signings in the We Can Be Heroes booth. Catch them in booth #2309 at Emerald City Comic Con.
Previously on Comics: Multiversal Collapse
Hello, and welcome to August! Somehow. Somehow, it is…August.
